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Subject(s)

• Proto-Indo-European language—Roots [Browse]
• Greek language—Etymology [Browse]
• Indo-European languages—Etymology [Browse]

Series

• Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 200. [More in this series]
• Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 200 [More in this series]

Summary note

This study resurrects the genre of Wortstudien contributions or lexilogus treatments, the core of historical lexical semantics. Such studies used to be quite popular, and interest in lexical matters is again rising. The word family around the Indo-European root *aǵ- 'drive' is placed against its Germanic replacement drive as a typological parallel. Many long-standing problems can now be solved, and new hypotheses emerge. Starting with the still important sports and games aspect of social life, new morphology is resurrected (agṓn 'games' as an original plural; 2), and a strongly social meaning for 'good' (agathós; 3). Aganós finds its solution that combines the 'mild' and plant readings in a natural way (4). Hunting-and-gathering considerations establish new possibilities or certainties for some 'wealth' words (6), and all around religion is involved (7). Comparable Baltic Finnic evidence is drawn in (8), and such evidence is used to discuss cases on both sides. This way explanations for the Indo-European material are strengthened, or even made possible in the first place, and scores of Baltic Finnic words find attractive (driving) loan hypotheses as their etymologies.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-286) and indexes.

Language note

English

Contents

• GREEK AND INDO-EUROPEAN ETYMOLOGY IN ACTIONPROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN *AG-
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
• The material
• The basic picture of the Proto-Indo-European root *ag- 'drive'
• Stray nouns
• Contrasts and suppletion
• Germanic drive
• The theoretical
• The practical
• The personal
• Memoria rerum tractatarum
• Laudationes
• Chapter 2 AΓΩN AND AΓA-
• 'Aγώv: semantics
• 'Aγώv: support from cognates
• 'Aγώv: morphology
• 'Aγa-: the evidence
• The enhancing particle aya-
• ' Ayaµeµvwv
• Social-unit parallels
• Other compounds with aya-
• On the morphology of -(ω)v/-(ω)p
• Non-collective -ωv
• Collective -ωV
• Free form ayav
• Greek épi-
• A note on Umbrian poplo
• Chapter 3 AND ITS RELATION TO THE GAMES AND CULTURE
• Original meaning of and its social/cultural context
• General background
• Lexical detail
• Epithet interlude
• The resulting good
• The initial in
• The ending -øóc in ayaøó
• The cultural centrality of *dhë- 'place, put'
• Chapter 4 META, ATAIIHTO, AND ATANOE
• Mεγαζ
• 'Aγαiinīó
• Loving care
• The French thrust
• 'One's own (and legal status)
• Support from names
• The Semitic suggestion
• The upshot
• 'Aγαvóς as 'mild'
• 'Aγαvóς with plants
• Driving as skill
• Driving as growth
• Growth at fuller blast
• Drive and medicine
• Centum/satәm, chronology, and maps
• Chapter 5 SPEAKING-AS-DRIVING WORDS
• Imperative (particle) aγε/age
• Speaking, saying, and driven sound: Latin aio and its ilk
• "Avωγα and its semantic-syntactic profile
• The origin of the Proto-Indo-European perfect
• Behind and around the perfect solution
• Slavic dĕ- 'speak'
• Chapter 6 AGGRESSION AND SUSTENANCE: AĠ (R)- &
• *G*HEN-
• Et ayw in Arcadia
• Running a trapline
• Hunting grounds
• Gathering force
• At the kill.
• 'Aγεpwxoς 'lordly, noble'
• Killing *ag-(ro/a)
• Hittite ak(k)-
• Beating and killing *gwhen- (beyond Hittite)
• An aquatic/aggressive ackerlaiker in English?
• West Germanic
• Icelandic
• Drift into acre
• Acorns etc., for grist's sake
• Non-killing *gwhen-
• Gathering
• Sexual union and nourishment
• Persephone
• Beating parallels
• Baltic ganàt/gana 'enough'
• Chapter 7 AfAMAI AND ITS ENTOURAGE
• "Aγƞ 'wonder, envy' and Umbrian ahtu 'divine force'
• "Aγαµαi 'admire, feel displeasure'
• "Aγoς 'awe, guilt'
• Power, awe, and holy fear
• Latin indiges
• Greek ayea
• Divine (driving) power
• Wonder and amazement
• Die deutsche Wissenschaft
• 'Aγαvóς 'arousing αγƞ, admirable, noble, glorious (herrlich)'
• 'Aγallw 'glorify, exalt
• (middle) take joy in a thing'
• 'Ayavaktew 'feel violent irritation (cold on the body), ferment'
• The good and the bad
• Chapter 8 PARALLELS FROM BALTIC FINNIC
• Finnish ajaa 'to drive'
• Meaning
• Formal richness
• 'To (make) swell' [and beyond]
• Other nouns
• Driving as speaking
• Sex(ual) drive
• Finnish akita and äkätä
• Socage as driving in Germanic
• Finnish akita
• Finnish äkki
• Finnish äkätä
• Finnish föörätä
• 'Fester' and 'ache' (and comparable phenomena)
• German(ic)
• Greek aζŋ
• OCz OP ol Slovene ozd 'malt-kiln'
• German Ekel 'disgust, nausea, aversion'
• Lithuanian giñtaras 'amber'
• Slavic gnoj 'dung, pus'
• Finnish äkä 'anger'
• More shit
• Finnish kenalkinalkona
• Sound substitution correspondences
• Hunting for the missing *ag- in Baltic
• Finnish and Estonian oja 'brook'
• Greek oχøƞ
• Lithuanian ozìnis 'SE wind
• The Soma
• Apologia pro forma
• Another large Baltic word family in Finnish?
• Hermeneutic collateralily
• Chapter 9 CONCLUSION: LO(0)SE ENDS
• Observing the formalities
• The problem of the root
• The problem of multiple suffixes.
• Parallels and exact form in borrowing
• The o-grade and oγµoς
• (Root) extensions
• The breaking point
• Radical prose poetry
• SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
• SUBJECT AND TERM INDEX
• LANGUAGE INDEXES
• Proto-Indo-European
• Greek
• Italic languages
• Germanic languages
• Celtic languages
• Tocharian (A &
• B)
• Anatolian languages
• Armenian
• Indo-Iranian languages
• Baltic languages
• Slavic languages
• Baltic Finnic languages
• Other Uralic languages.

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ISBN

• 9786613128164
• 9781283128162
• 1283128160
• 9789027284310
• 9027284318

OCLC

727649460

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